The Daily Opportunity in Randomness Leonard Mlodinow

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Jun 24, 201900:07:38Music

The physicist Leonard Mlodinow changes how we think about the agency we have in shaping our own destinies. As a scientist, he works with principles like Brownian motion, by which Einstein helped verify the existence of m...

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